MAT Vocab
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| abstemious | sparing or moderate
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| abstruse | hard to understand
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| accrete | to increase by growth
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| alacrity | cheerful readiness
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| antipathy | firm dislike
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| ascetic | hermitlike
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| assiduous | hard working
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| baleful | menacing; harmful
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| brook | to tolerate
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| capricious | unpredictable
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| contumacious | stubbornly rebellious
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| credulous | believing; gullible
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| deleterious | harmful
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| desiccate | to dry out
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| didactic | instructive
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| diffident | timid; no self-confidence
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| discomfit | to confuse, deject, frustrate
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| disinterested | unbiased
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| disparate | different; incompatible
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| doggerel | comic, loose verse
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| effluvium | noxious vapor; escaping gas
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| engender | to create or produce
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| equivocal | ambiguous; intentionally confusing
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| exigent | urgent
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| fecund | fertile
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| forbear | refrain from
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| fulsome | excessive, insincere
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| gainsay | to deny
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| hermetic | airtight; impervious to external influence
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| improvident | lacking foresight; careless
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| inchoate | just beginning; not organized
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| ineluctable | inescapable; unavoidable
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| ingenuous | naive; simple
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| insolvent | unable to pay bills
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| irascible | irritable
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| laconic | using few words, often rudely
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| ligneous | woodlike
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| munificent | very generous; lavish
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| obdurate | stubborn
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| palliate | to hide the seriousness of something with excuses
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| panegyric | lofty praise
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| parsimony | stinginess
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| paucity | scarcity
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| piquant | pungent
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| polemic | a powerful argument to refute something
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| preclude | to prevent
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| probity | integrity; honesty
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| propinquity | nearness
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| pundit | a learned person in a particular field
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| recondite | hard to understand
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| repudiate | to reject, deny
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| ribald | vulgar or indecent speech
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| salubrious | promoting health
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| spurious | doubtful; false
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| supercilious | haughty
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| sycophant | one who sucks up to others
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| temerity | boldness; recklessness
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| truculent | savagely brutal; aggresively hostile
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| turpitude | shameful wickedness
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| welter | a confused mass; a commotion
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